Here’s three weird things about Pabst Blue Ribbon. Weird thing Number One: When I saw the pallets and pallets of it at my local Dan Murphy’s last week (clearly they’re expecting to […]
Weird things about PBR
Some notes on Fat Yak
Here’s some short notes on Fat Yak, a beer from Matilda Bay that has polarised craft beers like no other from the brewer. Well, at least until they released Minimum Chips (a […]
Beer and browsing
I just ducked out to a bottle shop near work that is known to stock the odd beer from HopDog in Nowra. I was specifically after brewer Tim Thomas’ White Christmas. I […]
Worshipping at the Temple
Sometimes I can come up with pretty dumb reasons not to try a beer. For the longest time I’d put off trying anything from Temple Brewing. Why? Because I saw their labels […]
Problem of perspective
Late last week I was having a chat with James Smith of Crafty Pint fame about the success of breweries in the Illawarra and South Coast. He brought up something that I’d […]
Afternoon delight
In this blog I’ve been known to complain about the relative dearth of great beer in Wollongong. I’ve done the same on Twitter, where I’ve had to put up with reading about […]
What the hell is that doing here?
So the wife and I took our daughter out to Thirlmere to check out Trainworks and the Thomas the Tank Engine. The trip came about as a result of my day job […]
A pair of pales
Last year, the family had a weekend away way down the South Coast. One of the places we stopped at was Mogo. Needing a few bottles of refreshment, I visited the Mogo […]
What a time to get sick
So, my Slowbeer order arrived today. The same day I started coming down with the flu. Now I have to wait til I get better before I can try any of them. […]
Booty from Berry
Here’s the results of a visit to Justin Lill’s bottle shop down at Berry. Would have only bought two or three but my wife (bless her) kept saying to me “do you […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 